Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla panic

[Aaron Bentley]

Na Li wrote:
> I'm using tla 1.2 on Mac OX 10.3.3.
>
> Now and then I got this:
>
> bass$ tla file-diffs Wiki/Teaching/BiostatOne/ConceptsTechniquesReview
> PANIC: execvp for diff returned to caller
>
> It is just plain text file but tla seems to regard it as binary.  Google
> search didn't bring anything useful.  Any idea what went wrong?

tla uses diff to determine whether files are binary or not.  Apparently, 
diff considers a file to be binary if it contains the ASCII NUL 
character (0x00).  Is it possibly a UTF-16 file?  Those files usually 
contain a byte-order mark, which contains an 0x00, IIRC.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
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